A proposed statewide Domestic Workers Bill of Rights would cover housekeepers and other workers employed in private homes and give them access to wage, discrimination and enforcement protections.

Corpus Christi leaders say a water emergency could arrive within months, with shortages potentially disrupting major industries and fuel distribution.

For the first time in the decade that homeless mortality has been tracked in Los Angeles County, fewer people have died on the streets and in shelters, the Department of Public Health reported Tuesday ...

Proposed legislation would allow schools to check immigration status and potentially deny enrollment or charge tuition, ...

Officials from both parties have halted proposed warehouse conversions in several states, even as federal officials continue ...

States are beginning to receive hundreds of millions from a new $50 billion federal rural health program, but lawmakers and health groups are challenging how the money will be spent.<br/> ...

This long-depressed city has overcome some of its most serious problems. Maybe others can accomplish the same thing.

The U.S. homeland is out of range of military strikes, but state and local governments could see cyber attacks, cloud service disruptions and rising supply costs.

Between 2023 and 2025, the city cleared encampments and quickly built new shelters. It reduced the unsheltered homeless ...

Mississippi’s Black voters recently won a victory that puts them on the brink of having greater sway over who sits on the ...

With local governments facing persistent budget pressures, public-private partnerships can help deliver critical services, ...

Inmates and families say costly per-minute fees and limited services under a widely adopted system have turned a ...